This comes just one month after the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) cancelled a concert of mine for similar safety reasons. As with Southampton University, the RNCM was bullied by a violent pro-Israel group and it took us only a few hours to learn that the spokesperson for the pro-Israeli body was an infamous crook as well as a football hooligan (see here).

This raises an important question: Is it possible that, like the Palestinians, British academia is now also subject to Zionist terror?

The vile campaign against the Southampton conference was led by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a body that claims to represent Jews in Britain.

So far, not one single British Jewish body has stood up for the conference and for elementary academic freedom, nor has a single Jewish institution criticised the Board of Deputies’ campaign against British academic institutes. I guess the meaning of this is as simple as it is devastating: we now see a clear conflict between the Jewish community and those precious British values of tolerance and academic freedom.

Recently, Jewish community leaders have been concerned by the rise of anti-Semitism in Britain. In this connection, I would use this opportunity to remind them that Jewish institutional bullying of British academic institutions does not reflect well on British Jewry. In fact, it has a most disastrous effect

So, as we witness this devastating continuum between Gaza and Britain we once again come to realise that the plight of the Palestinians is not an isolated event in contemporary world affairs or history.

Britons are also now subject to Zionist terror, and the meaning of it is simple: now, more than ever, we are all Palestinians.